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Samsung joins Google in RCS shaming Apple (www.theverge.com)

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Samsung has released a new video in support of Google’s #GetTheMessage campaign which calls for Apple to adopt RCS or “Rich Communication Services,” the cross-platform protocol pitched as a successor to SMS that adopts many of the features found in modern messaging apps... like Apple’s own iMessage.

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[-] Encode1307@lemm.ee 116 points 1 year ago

Unless the EU makes them, they're not adopting rcs. I could see them putting out an imessage app for Android though. Probably ad supported to make the experience extra shitty for us. They'd quickly own the messaging market, at least in the US.

[-] Dran_Arcana@lemmy.world 148 points 1 year ago

Internal memos explicitly stated execs were worried that if they brought iMessage to android, poor families might buy their kids cheap android phones instead of iPhones.

You can't make this stuff up

https://www.theverge.com/2021/4/27/22406303/imessage-android-eddy-cue-emails-apple-epic-deposition

[+] MrSpArkle@lemmy.ca -11 points 1 year ago

You can't make this stuff up

Except that You literally made it up though? You embellished the part about poor families and cheap phones, here's the actual quote:

I am concerned [that] iMessage on Android would simply serve to remove an obstacle to iPhone families giving their kids Android phones.

[-] WldFyre@lemm.ee 32 points 1 year ago

How else would you read that lol come on, now

[-] micka190@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

Kids might want an Android phone for another reason than "we're poor". For a while, there were plenty of apps you could get on an Android that you couldn't get on an iPhone. Customization was a big deal back when I was in highschool. All the cool kids had these shitty custom launchers that made their phone borderline unusable if you didn't know how they were setup, but that was the cool thing to do back then.

[-] Slayer_of_Oryx@reddthat.com 14 points 1 year ago

I've got the money to buy an iPhone, but prefer Android for customization and app reasons still. Apple is far too restrictive of a phone that you own. I like the ability to side load apps, and I play a lot of emulated GBA/DS games, and apple doesn't allow emulator apps on their store.

[-] CalcProgrammer1@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 year ago

I can afford an iPhone 15 but I run a used OnePlus 6T I got on eBay for $100 because postmarketOS runs well on it. I ran a $200 PinePhone for a while before that. Bring on the phones that put the user's control ahead of the profits.

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